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CONCERNING KNIGHTHOOD

[This is an article from Cariadoc's Miscellany. The Miscellany is
Copyright (c) by David Friedman and Elizabeth Cook, 1988, 1990, 1992.
For copying details, see the Miscellany Introduction.]
[ This article has been severely edited. 333]
Subject: CONCERNING KNIGHTHOOD
...
It has been the custom in certain lands that, when a knight is to be
dubbed, the King calls the knights to assemble, whereat the eldest
approaches the throne to complain that there is one absent who has by
right a place among their company. To this the King assents, and calls
out him who is to be dubbed. And all this is in token that a knight is
made neither by King nor all the chivalry assembled; their part is but
to recognize that he has made himself a knight. Neither belt, spurs,
nor chain makes up a knight, nor yet the accolade of any King.
And as kings and knights are but men and fallible, so may they be
mistaken, and some may wear the three tokens who are not knights, and
some be truly knights who wear neither belt, spur, nor chain. But
Allah alone knoweth all.
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